Wheel.



Patented July 15, 1913.

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, APPLIGATION FILED OCT. 22, 1908- 1,067,430, Patented July 15, 1913.

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THOMAS IB. JEFFERY, OF KENOSHA, WISCONSIN; KATE E. JEFFERY, CHARLESv T.JEFFERY, AND HAROLD W. JEFFERY EXECUTORS F SAID THOMAS JEFFERY,

DECEASED.

WHEEL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS B. J EFFERY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kenosha, county of Kenosha, State of Visconsin, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in IVheels, and declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification.

It is an almost universal practice to carry upon an automobile or thelike one or more extra tires or tires and rims for the purpose ofreplacing damaged tires. It is often very diflicult to place a new tirein position in the open where the best appliances for this purpose arenot at hand, and the use of detachable rims, while increasing thecertainty that a tire may be replaced under adverse conditions, adds tothe complexity of the wheels and produces the disadvantages whichnaturally result from such complexity. It has been proposed, in order toobviate the difficulties attendant upon the use of detachable tires anddetachable rims, to employ wheels which are in themselves detachable sothat in order to replace a damaged tire an entire new wheel issubstituted for the Wheel having the damaged tire.

My invention has for one of its objects to produce a simple and novelarrangement wherein a wheel body may be readily removed from its hub andreplaced by another wheel body similar thereto or of a different kind.

A further object of my invention is to produce a wheel wherein the bodymay readily be detached from the hub without leaving the wheel body in aweakened condition which may result in the wheel body being damaged whencarried as an auxiliary device for replacing a wheel body which hasbecome broken or whose tire may have become useless.

A further object of my invention is to produce a simple and novel doublewheel having two inde endent tread surfaces.

The various features of novelty which characterize my invention willhereinafter be pointed out with particularity in the claims; but, forfull understanding of my invention and of its various-objects andadvantages, reference may be had to the fol- Specification of LettersPatent.

lowing detailed description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, wherein Figure 1 is a section taken on line 11 of Fig. 2showing a preferred form of my invention embodying the double wheelconstruction. Fig. 2 is a side view of the Wheel shown in Fig. 1, therim and tire being omitted; Fig.3 is a view similar to the centralportion of Fig. 1 showing one of the wheels in the process of removal;Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing the wheel body removed fromthe hub; and Fig. 5 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1, showing, hoW-over, only a. single-wheel construction.

Referring to the drawings, A represents an axlehaving a cone-shaped enda.

I; is a hub detachably fitted upon the end of the axle. This hub hasupon its inner end an annular shoulder 7).

C is a wheel consisting of a series of ra- Patented. July 15,1913.Application filed October 22, 1908. Serial No. 458,941.

diating spokes c, and a rim device C sur-' rounding the spokes andincluding the tire c. The inner ends of the spokesare shaped so as toform a central opening o suiticiently large to receive the hub.

D is a hub flange of usual construction lying against one face of the sokes and surrounding the hub. In accordance with my invention the hubflange'is fastened permanently to the wheel body, as, by means of boltsE which pass through the flange and the inner ends of the spokes. Theflange accordingly forms a permanent part of the wheel body. In order tosecure the wheel body upon the hub, I make use of a second set of bolts,F, these bolts passing not only through the flange and the spoke endsbut also into or through the shoulder 12 on the hub.

G is a second wheel body made up of spokes g and a rim device Gincluding a tire The inner ends of the spokes form a central 0 )eningsimilar to the opening 0 in the other wheel.

H is a hub flange similar to the flange D and connected to the spokes gby means of bolts E. This second wheel may convenicntly be secured inplace by extending. the bolts F sutliciently to permit them to passentirely through the spokes and the hub flange of the second wheel.Furthermore, a spacing device I may be placed between the two wheels sothat when the nuts f and f are tightened the wheel C 7 course, remainingfixed thereto.

' them against rotation.

that a flat side of each of the nuts will. be

against one of the sides of the spacer when the nuts are properlypositioned. v

K is-a hub cap which, like the spacer I, may fit over the nuts f and 6so as to hold The cap may be held in place in any convenient'manner as,

for example, by means of a bolt L having at one end a screw threadedhead Z which is screwed upon the end of the axle at a and having at itsother end a nut Z Z which bears against the outer surface of the cap.

' When it is desired to remove the wheel G.

the hub-cap and the nuts f are removed. The hub flange is provided witha bead or shoulder behind w ich the toes m of a U- shaped clamp M may behooked. The

clamp is provided with a central screw threaded stud M which is turneduntil the inner end thereof engages with the end of the axle. Uponcontinuing the turning movement of the stud, the Wheel is graduallydrawn from the hub, the flange, of A new wheel may now be put in'placeand, by reason of the permanent attachment of the flanges, there is nodanger that the new wheel will have been distorted or that the wheelwhich is being removed will be in jured in any way. If it is desiredalsoto remove the wheel C then, after the outer wheel has been removed,-the clamp is engaged with a head or shoulder d on the flange D and thesame operation, is performed with the clamp as before, the nuts 7 havinof course, been first removed. If it is desired to remove the hub fromthe axle, then, by removing the nut a on the end of the axle and leavingthe nuts 7 in place, the clamp, when hooked over the shoulder or beadit, will act to draw both wheels and their hubs from the end of theaxle.

In Fig. 5, I have shown my invention as embodied in a single wheel. Thehub B may be identical with the hub B, except e that it is shorter. TheWheel body C is t same as it is in the other modification. The flange Dmay be the same as either the flange D or the flange H. The bolts F arethe same as the bolts F, except that they are not extended farther thanis necessary beyond the flange D The bolts F and F are preferably fixedto the shoulder on the hub so that upon the removal of a wheel or wheelsthe bolts remain in their normal positions on the hub. There isconsequently no danger of losing the bolts or of dropping the endsthereof after the them upon the roadway and covering them with dirt whenit is necessary to remove a wheel out in the open, and substitutetherefor a spare wheel. Furthermore, by fixing the boltsv to the hubinstead of to the wheel j itself, it is unnecessary to provide the sparewheel with an extra set of bolts which might become injured so as tomake it difiicult to apply the spare wheel when desired. The fixing ofthe bolts may be accomplished in various ways as, for example, byriveting bolts have been screwed into the shoulder. The cap K is similarto the cap K. I

' It will now' be seen that in each of the modifications there isprovided a means -which permits of ready and convenient replacement of adamaged tire and also, if the wheel itself be injured, of the wheel,without adding to the complexity of the ordinary wheel structure orweakening the wheel structure in such a way that a wheel carried as anextra wheel is liable to injure it. Furthermore, in the modificationillustrated in the'first four figures, apowerful wheel structure isproduced without making it. necessary to have correspondingly largetires. It will be seen that if one of the tires is damaged it is onlynecessary to replace that tire, the expense being mu h less than wouldbe the case if a single large tire were employed. Furthermore, in bothmodifications it is possible to replace a wheel by anotherwheel havingan entirely different kind of tire so that the user does not have todepend upon any particular type of rim structure; nor is it necessarythat one set of wheels be always replaced by a setsimilar thereto, as tosize, since it is only necessary that the new wheels have the propersized hub openings and properly spaced bolt holes.

While I have described in detail only preferred forms of my invention, Ido not desire to be limited to these particular forms since in itsbroader aspects my invention may take various other forms as will beevident from the terms employed in the definitions of my inventionconsidered in the appended claims.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination, a wheel hub having a shoulder, a wheel bodycomprising radiating spokes and a rim surrounding the spokes, a

v flange surrounding the hub and lying adjacent to the spokes, boltspassing through the flange and spokes, nuts on said bolts and hub-caphaving faces for engaging with the sides of said nuts for preventingthem from turning.

2. In combination, a hub having a shoulder, a wheel body arranged uponsaid hub, bolts passing through said shoulder and said wheel body, nutson said bolts for forcing said body toward said shoulder, a second wheelbody on said hub, a spacer between said wheel bodies, said bolts beingextended through said second Wheel body, and nuts on said bolts forforcing said second wheel body toward the first wheel body.

3. In combination, a hub having a shoul der, a wheel body arranged onsaidhub, a sleeve shaped to fit the hub and having an annular flange atone end, bolts passing through the wheel body and said flange to securethe same together, a second wheel body on said hub, a second sleeveshaped to fit the hub and having an annular flange at one end, boltssecuring the latter-flange to said second wheel body, a series of boltsfixed to said shoulder and passing through both of said wheel bodies andsaid flanges, and nuts on said latter bolts for forcing both of saidwheel bodies toward said shoulder.

4. In combination, a hub having a shoulder, a wheel body arranged onsaid hub, a sleeve shaped to fit the hub and having an annular flange atone end, bolts passing through the wheel body and said flange to securethe same together, a second wheel 'body on said hub, a second sleeveshaped to fit the hub and having an annular flange at one end, boltssecuring the latter flange to said second wheel, a spacer between saidwheel bodies, a series of bolts fixed to said shoulder and passingthrough both of said wheel bodies and said flanges, and nuts on saidlatter bolts for'forcing both of said wheel bodies toward said shoulder.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of twowitnesses.

THOMAS B. JEFFERY. Witnesses:

GEO. L. TROUVIG, GEO. H. EDDY.

